Turtle Tells

https://turtletells.com

My last post was about our recent trip to Universal Studios, but there was so much to tell that I simply couldn't complete it in one post. I don't know how many posts it will come out as, but probably a few. So this is part two. After wandering around Diagon Alley and attempting to absorb it all, we decided to head to one of The Wizarding World's rides. Strolling through one line which led straight through Gringotts bank,  I continually gasped and pointed at small details only a true fan would notice. As we passed a set of golden doors engraved with a poem I knew by heart, I recited dramatically:“Enter, Stranger, but take heedOf what awaits the sin of greed.For those who take, but do not earn,Must pay most dearly in their turn.So if you seek beneath these floors,A treasure that was never yours,Thief, you have been warned, beware,Of finding more than treasure there.” In the ride, you were led through several top-security vaults by Bill Weasley and Griphook the goblin, while being attacked by many security measures which Gringotts puts up against intruders. It was a ride of great quality, being mostly digital but very well done.[gallery size=full ids=3408,3426,3412]Knockturn Alley we had yet to visit. I knew, of course, what it was supposed to be like, and upon finding it I was not in the slightest disappointed. There was Borgin and Burke’s, a store of dark magic into which Harry had once inadvertently stumbled, and in the corner was a vanishing cabinet, and in a glass case was a cursed necklace, and you could there by a “hand of glory,” a severed hand which gave a light which only the holder could benefit from. Or rather, that was the idea; but, of course, these were only skeletal plastic hands with a hole for a tea-candle. I cast a silencing charm on some severed heads, lit a digital bird on fire, and magically unlocked a door - though it still couldn’t be opened. Everything was dark in Knockturn Alley, though outside the world was bright and cheery. A couple cloaked and hooded wizards roamed the streets, looking forbidding; they were only kids in costume, but they had gotten quite into character. [caption id=attachment_3406 align=alignnone width=225] Hogwarts castle in the distance.[/caption]We stopped into Florean Fortescue’s for earl grey and lavender flavored ice cream, which turned out to be pretty good but still tasted far more like lavender than the earl grey we were hoping for. We drank some delicious butterbeer, enjoyed pumpkin juice, and nibbled a gigantic chocolate frog. Every frog comes with a famous witch or wizard card, and I, a Hufflepuff, got a Helga Hufflepuff card with my first and only frog! We got some gillywater as well, which is nothing more than regular water with a fancy sticker on the bottle, but throughout the day we kept refilling both its bottle and that of the pumpkin juice.[gallery columns=2 size=full ids=3425,3410]Diagon Alley, I think, was the best part of Universal. Everything else was really fantastic as well, but nothing, not one single thing, could top the magic of this magical shopping centre.

Keywords:

Category: Travel

City:

State:

Country: Unknown

Currency :

Avg product price:

Platform: Custom Cart

Technologies used: Facebook SDK, Google Analytics, YouTube Player

Contact page: https://turtletells.com/contact-us

Social links: